CAMHS Eating Disorder Mental Health Practitioner in Huddersfield inHuddersfield PUBLISHED MON 10 FEB 2025 Jump to job information section

37.5 Hours Per Week

As a Registered Nurse you will be responsible for supporting your Manager in ensuring that our service users needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care. As a centre of excellence, you will offer a person-centred approach to their independence and well-being.

Role will be covering both the Calderdale and Kirklees CAMHS Eating Disorder Team as well as the opportunity to work within the developing ARFID pathway. The successful candidate will offer assessments and interventions appropriate for the needs of the young people within our service. They will have opportunities to develop services for the needs of local populations.

We offer training in areas where you may feel you needs some development. Supervision will be offered within your professional group as well as supervising other staff and develop their practice. As a band 6 you will have the opportunity to further develop your clinical skills and knowledge by offering care co-ordination and intervention for more complex young people. We are a growing team from a well established and supportive MDT after additional investment into the service.

At the time of advertising, this role does not meet the minimum requirements (salary threshold or occupational requirements) set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. For this reason, unfortunately we are unable to sponsor anyone on a visa for this role at this moment in time.

The successful candidate will offer Eating Disorder and Mental health assessment and intervention to young people with symptomology of Eating Disorders or ARFID, as well as engaging families to empower them all to support recovery.

You will also support the wider team by working with the MDT with the young person at the centre. You will offer, as well as receiving robust clinical supervision both from your profession peers and within the wider team. To use outcome measures to ensure that goals are being met and that the young person is moving towards recovery.

Care planning and risk assessment are important parts of this role, as well as completing goal based outcomes as appropriate for the role. Maintaining a high standard of care and working within the Trusts values.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

About us

The post-holder will:

Provide assessment and treatment to children and young people with mental health needs;

Work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation for other agencies/professionals;

Work as part of CAMHS first on-call rota.

Promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people.

To provide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with a wide range of emotional and psychological problems who are referred to specialist CAMHS, in keeping with evidence based practice with supervision from a senior clinician within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.

To support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system.

To provide assessment, interventions, therapy to children, young people with the most severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those who are severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, families as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in a variety of settings to address need. This will include working with the CAPA model.

To apply a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work.

To be committed to a quality approach for patient care.

The post-holder will demonstrate high levels of concentration and provide sustained effort in assessment of complex family issues.

To manage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individual need.

To operate within the clinical and case management supervision framework.

To provide training, consultation and supervision to other service providers, partner agencies and junior members of staff as required regarding intensive interventions with children, young people and families.

To participate in the development, audit and review of this extension to existing service provision.

To work as part of the CAMHS on call rota when required and to work in a flexible manner (24/7).

To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow specialist CAMHS practitioners.

To work collaboratively with all services to provide coherent and co-ordinated mental health services for children and young people as well as other significant partners, ensuring timely transition and relevant consultation, training and support to universal services and targeted groups.

To use a range of Information Technology systems (including Rio) ensuring high quality data is collected appropriately, kept securely and confidentially

To participate in an agreed clinical audit programme for the service, and ensure lessons learnt from both audit and clinical incidents are reported.

To comply with both clinical and corporate governance frameworks.

To support the engagement of service stakeholders and users in the development and monitoring of service delivery and identify opportunities for service improvement and redesign.

To actively promote user/carer involvement in all aspects of care planning/delivery whilst respecting the rights, capabilities and wishes of the individuals concerned.

To work in an innovative and child, young person and family centred way, in a culture of continuous improvement and learning.

Apply Trust policies and procedures in instances of aggression, acute distress and disturbed mental health presentations.

To maintain relevant professional registration

To identify and communicate any concerns through the relevant management processes.

To demonstrate continued practice development and engage in annual appraisal.

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